kgrogers1979

What am I missing here? Many movies get soundtracks. That doesn't mean they are mainstream movies though. The Goonies got a soundtrack, but it's still a cult movie.

RichC2

The Goonies isn't a cult movie but for some reason its fans seem to think it is. It's a Richard Donner directed movie based on a story by Steven Spielberg and was the 9th highest grossing movie of 1985. It'd be like considering Big Hero 6 a cult movie.

But still, The Goonies also didn't have a song written for it by a major star of the era. I think there's an association between the song being a huge hit and the movie being well known because of it. Alas the song was more popular than the movie I do believe (charted at #2, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome was the #24 highest grossing domestic flick of 85.)

banthafett

I didnt say my whopping 4 tickets would make or break the shit movie. Just said I wasted money watching a bland piece of shit , and wasn't going to make that mistake again.

majorjoe23

Cyndi Lauper and her top 10 hit r not good enough?

RichC2

Haha you know something didn't seem right when I was typing that. My bad.

Matthew Chmiel

When adjusted for inflation, The Goonies made $144M compared to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome's $86M.

So where the fuck is The Goonies: Fury Road?

Ash Ketchum

Are the actors who played the Goonies still around and able to come back for a sequel/reunion 30 years later? (I have no memory of who was in that movie?) Not that I'd want to see such a thing, but perhaps Goonies fans would. (I saw it once on cable and could never understand the appeal of it. But that's true of a lot of '80s pop cult phenomena for me. )

Obi-Wanma

There's been talks of a Goonies sequel for many years. Everyone always says they're in, but nothing ever seems to happen.

Michael Corvin

kgrogers1979

The appeal is that it is a kid's version of Indiana Jones. The story may not be the greatest, but the characters are very likeable, especially Chunk and Sloth. It's entertaining just watching those two together.

I think another big part of the appeal is just nostalgia. Many of us watched it when we were kids. It is still enjoyable as an adult, but not as enjoyable. If you never watched it as a kid though, then you don't have the nostalgia factor, and that may be why you don't like it.

Solid Snake

I never cared for it when I was a kid. But I didn't jive with a lot of kid movie crap either. It's an alright movie to me.

RocShemp

I'm sure Avengers :Age of Ultron will win but I'd be lying if I didn't say I'd rather see Mad Max: Fury Road take the top spot. But this is all moot. There's a chance neither will dethrone Furious 7. We'll have to wait 'til Star Wars: The Force Awakens before we crown a new champion.

Dr. DVD

What stuff did you grow up watching, Robocop?

I think Pitch Perfect 2 will pull an upset and be #1 over both.

Solid Snake

RoboCop, Predator, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, ET, Terminator, other 80s actions movies, Godzilla, HK action movies, Mexploitation, Spanish language films. I don't think I watched a Disney film till Aladdin. I was 6 by that time. Back to the Future, SW, Goonies, and other stuff kids grew up on in my age group wasn't really my thing or my parents.

kgrogers1979

That explains your vocabulary of f-bombs. You learned how to speak by watching Clarence Boddicker.

RichC2

I grew up mostly without movies, and I curse like a fucking sailor

Solid Snake

Funny enough, I didn't start cursing as I do now till I was 15.

superdeluxe

Maybe I am putting too much on 'buzz', but that trailer really elicited a good response. But then again, so did Snakes on a Plane.

superdeluxe

I think less people going to 3D showings might hurt its OW, which would remove the typical bump of a MCU movie for its 2nd movie.

d2cheer

The same problem here, pretty explosions in trailer that looks like a video game. And really no one knows what the movie is about or where it fits with previous movies; to me that is a big problem. 2 hour road movie the director said; great that may have played out better several years ago. I can't say that many of these type of "franchise" re-starter's have done very well.

Unfortunately this will under-perform as well. But then I don't think expectations are that high with tracking at a mid 30's opening.

Ash Ketchum

Great picture. When was that taken? It doesn't look like 30 years later. They all look great--and happy to be with each other. Without looking up the cast, I don't recognize any of them, but that looks like Ethan Hawke or Josh Brolin on the right. (I don't recall either one being associated with that film. I remember Ethan Hawke was in EXPLORERS.)

Good points and I'm guessing it just didn't work its magic on me because I was at an age in between college and youth on one hand and middle age on the other. (Plus 1985 was an extremely turbulent year for me, possibly the worst I've ever experienced.) Ironically, Power Rangers premiered when I was 40 and Pokemon premiered when I was 45 or 46 and I loved both (and still do). I'm actually nostalgic for the early days of both shows (things I shared with my daughter and her friends and my nephews and nieces, none of whom are still watching). Maybe I felt freer by then to indulge my inner child.

Obi-Wanma

It was taken in 2009, cast reunion for Empire magazine. And that is indeed Josh Brolin on the far right. He played the older brother, Brand. The rest from left to right are Jonathan Ke Quan (Data), Sean Astin (Mikey), Martha Plimpton (Stef), Corey Feldman (Mouth), Kerri Green (Andy), Director Richard Donner, and Jeff Cohen (Chunk).

Solid Snake

What? I heavily doubt that affects Box Office. I'm game for whatever. Looks like it MAY be a reboot. Weirds me out how there aren't really a interviews w/ Miller and crew about this. I'm not some hardcore MM fan but I LOVE MM2. And the world is interesting and it looks like Miller blew his load on this. So I'm game for that. All I hope for is that it comes out to be a good movie.

And we do know what it's about mostly from the last trailer we got, the generic one.

Ash Ketchum

Richard Donner would have been 79 there and looks much younger. My initial thought was that he was one of the kids who just aged far more than his castmates. I should have recognized at least three of the others in the pic, though. Martha Plimpton looks better there than I remember her looking. Thanks, Obi-Wan.

Matthew Chmiel

Yes and no. There are also 2D presentations occurring in "premium" theaters (such as Cinemark's XD, Regal's RPX, etc), so it's almost a moot point.

While Americans aren't going to 3D presentations as much as they were three years ago, worldwide audiences are the exact opposite. That may also explain Furious 7's box office performance as Canada and the U.S. were the only two markets not to get the 3D post-conversion.